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Credit where credit’s due—Modi govt has scripted an unbelievable banking success story

Indian banks, regulators, and investors weren’t worried when crises began exploding in US and European banks earlier this year. This resilience has been a long time coming.

Modi govt has a split personality—innovative on disinvestment, regressive on credit card spends

Scrapping the latest version of the Consumer Expenditure Survey, or denial on China dependence reveal the govt's signs of immaturity that are hard to ignore.

The pains and gains of Modi’s reforms are deferred—GST, banks to demonetisation

Even if credit expansion to corporates begins today, it’s too late for there to be any real impact in terms of new investments and job creation before May 2024.

Modi govt turning into Big Brother. Overly-protective TCS policies infantilising citizens

Prime Minister Modi talked about ‘minimum government’, but nobody thought he meant making the citizenry do the government’s job.

Vodafone to ONDC to BharOS, how govt is empowering small businesses and breaking duopolies

Food delivery and e-commerce are two sectors where the government has created an indirect mechanism to stop the duopoly system, without clipping the wings of the giants.

Modi govt not leveraging its parliament strength for economic reforms. Using it for politics

BJP’s pro-business, pro-economic reform image is now being dented, even though this regime is better positioned to make positive change than most before it.

Blinkit-like approach to reduce cost hurting economy and workers. Innovate, increase revenue

Investing in more capital than in employing labour can work in most countries. But India can't blindly emulate developed economies and reduce the amount of labour employed.

India innovates in labour. It doesn’t need the pressure to spend huge on R&D like US, Japan

India has cheap labour while conventionally R&D-intensive countries have cheaper capital. The whole debate on R&D needs to be recast to fit the realities here.

Indian policymaking is good when cautious, botched when rushed. Learn from US banking crisis

India has done great in regulation because it took time to think things through. The US banking crisis should encourage Modi govt to avoid rush jobs like demonetisation.

GDP data shows how well Nirmala Sitharaman handled pandemic economy. Critics judged too soon

The impact of pandemic meant that the revisions made to the data for 2020-21 and 2021-22, in particular, are even more significant than usual.

On Camera

I am a dog lover, but we don’t know how to win the war on strays

We have failed terribly at two important things. One, we are reacting to this issue only emotionally, not logically. And two, we are not asking the right questions.

In NCLAT’s WhatsApp ruling, reminder of India’s cautious view of competition disputes involving Big Tech

WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.